Day 15 - our last day in France. We packed up and headed into the centre for a visit to the Museum of Miniatures. There were lots of costumes and miniatures from movie sets - Independence Day and alien. A video explaining how it works - amazing to see how much work goes into it - I guess that art will soon be lost to 3D printers! The top floor was miniatures. The girls were fascinated by the little rooms. The photos may not do it justice. Then we caught the ai...

Day 14 - today was churches in the morning and a park with a free zoo this afternoon. Our first stop was Our Lady of Fourviere Basilica. It is described as looking like a fairy tale castle with twin towers and is truly amazing inside - mosaics and paintings and sculptures. It has been the leading site of devotion to the Virgin Mary since the 12th century. Then we caught the cable car back down to the cathedral st jean which was impressive on the outside but not...

Day 13 - not much to report today. We were ready to set off from Avignon quite early but then couldn't find the room key to return! Upturned the room and then had to go through all the suit cases (which were already packed in car) before finally finding it in Lauren's bag! We found the train station and the hire car return quite easily. I was very pleased to return the car and us in one piece! We then had 2 hours to kill at the train station. The trip to Lyon...